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Today is May Day. Although the current deluge would make one think otherwise, May day is the first day of summer. Traditionally this is the day in which Morris Dancers black up and perform the Mummer pl...

A helicopter pilot could face manslaughter charges after a mountain rescue expert died when he was dropped from a rope into a jagged crevasse. Alpine policeman Franz Franzeskon, 52, and two colleagues wer...

A Mexican woman who claimed to be pregnant with nine babies is not expecting and is simply clinically obese, health officials have said. They have also revealed it would be impossible for Karla Vanessa Pe...

*What could be expected is happening in Greece*. The *unexpected* is happening in Spain. President *Mariano Rajoy* and members of his team appear to contradict each-other in claims about the path to recov...

Police fear a man has drowned in flood waters in the River Severn in Tewkesbury, according to Sky sources, as parts of England and Wales face fresh flood alerts. A search of the river in the Gloucesters...

Dozens of cities across the U.S. are preparing for what could be the largest May Day protests that America has ever seen. The Occupy movement is calling for a general strike tomorrow and is urging millio...

Serving and former US Navy SEALs have slammed President Barack Obama for taking the credit for killing Osama bin Laden and accused him of using Special Forces operators as ‘ammunition’ for his re-election...

Today is May Day, the International Workers' Day, a day to celebrate our strength and our unity as working people. Although May Day is an official holiday in many countries around the world, many working...

video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Security at airports in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East has been stepped up amid fears terrorists may be using bombs surgically implanted ins...

Children were among spectators who watched in horror as a pilot died in a fireball when his plane crashed at an airshow. Martino Waller, 49, was flying in formation in a vintage Czech-built Zlin 226 air...

A man accused of murdering a gay supermarket worker embarked on a campaign against uncaught paedophiles using 'military strategy' to track them down after overhearing convicted prisoners planning new offe...

Beware the next time you order a lamb kebab - as consumer watchdogs have discovered that every one they tested contained a concoction of other meats. An investigation by trading standards officers has rev...

Surfers are known for going to extreme lengths in search of that perfect wave, but these adrenaline junkies really pushed things to the limit when they risked their lives by Newlyn Pier off the south coas...

It is a divisive subject - those who believe in alien visitors to our planet, and those who do not. But there are many people on this planet who earnestly claim they have been visited by aliens, and have...

Three people are still 'unaccounted' for after a huge fire ripped through a West Country hotel yesterday afternoon. Around 30 guests, including Blur guitarist Graham Coxon, were evacuated from the Best W...

Detectives from the Counter Terrorism Command have arrested seven people in England and Wales on suspicion of terrorist financing offences. The arrests were made at four addresses in London, Coventry and ...

David Cameron will have the grim task of ordering the Armed Forces to shoot down a passenger airliner over Britain to prevent a suicide attack on the Olympic Games. The Prime Minister will have his finge...

Judges last night moved against internet giants with a ruling on copyright infringment that proved it is possible to take action to combat online porn. The High Court ruled that a Swedish file-sharing web...

Not a single U.S. citizen has been extradited to Britain for a crime committed on their home soil, it was revealed last night. MPs said it was proof of ‘double standards’ by the American government in the...

A suspected terrorist plot to drive a toy car loaded with explosives under the gates of a Territorial Army base and blow it up has been smashed by police. Detectives believe the device was to have been d...

Nearly 70 firms are collapsing every day, the largest number for two years, as banks continue to refuse to lend. Researchers found that 2,112 businesses became insolvent in March, equal to 68 per day. N...

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck South of the Islands at a depth of 505.9 km (314.4 miles), the quake hit at 05:58:51 UTC Tuesday 1st May 2012 The epicenter was 427 km (265 miles) SSW of Ndoi Island, ...

Koala populations in Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory have been placed on the national list of vulnerable species. Photo courtesy: imagebroker/Alamy The Australian governme...

*Guest blog by Eugene Seidel* In 1986 Robert Nozick, professor of philosophy at Harvard and author of *Anarchy, State and Utopia* among numerous other works, published an essay titled *Why Do Intellectu...

umers30/CC BY 2.0 It takes a brave and hearty (and spartan) soul to give up coffee and tea in the name of food miles. Many do, but morning caffeine is the guilty pleasure that whispers in a voice too allu...

blatantly freemasonic rival to the TransAmerica building in downtown San Francisco, the new ONE WORLD TRADE CENTRE building in Manhattan is about as close to a pyramidic design, or at least the Cap Stone o...

The following are six graphs of earth temperature from JP Attitude. Look at each graph and see how why the warmists like to start their temperature records from 1850. JP Attitude have some excellent descri...

After a wet and cloudy March, April this year here in Metro Manila and surrounding provinces was generally hot and often cloudless. There were about three days of cloudy sky, it even rained once. Now the 1...

In Buffalo, New York, a deer and a goose formed an interesting alliance during nesting season. The deer guarded the goose while she sat on her nest in a city cemetery. Joel Thomas, of the Erie County SPCA...

Your blogger with yet another of the candidates to be called Mr. Speaker, the dulcetly mellifluous Gene Zwozdesky, looking none too thrilled about this photo opportunity in Speakerly garb. I have been s...

#NorthernGateway #BCpoli #Cdnpoli - Do you live in British Columbia? You may remember this post. Well Robyn Allan received a reply from Christy Clark's office. Apparently Christy's pretty busy reorgani...

The Navy's much-awaited Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) will fall below any expectations of standing up to a shootout with China if things get out of hand in the Asia Pacific region. The Pentagon is actively ...

Peak oilers have had a pretty hard time lately. Not only have global unconventional finds flattened Hubbard’s ‘peak’, more and more conventional plays are cropping up. ‘Running out’? We have more than eno...

According to a 2011 survey from the Pew Research Centre, 76 percent of Nigerians have a generally positive view of China. And with Beijing providing moral and material assistance at a level most Western c...

As the real estate downturn searches for the escape pod that will carry it to upturn, so-called short sales, which might help, are not living up to their name. Short sales are transactions in which the l...

(Reuters) - Two key central bank meetings and a string of big data releases in the coming week should sharpen the debate over slowing growth and rising inflation risks, and may shake the markets out of th...

Asia's military might appears to be growing by leaps and bounds these days. Just last month, China announced a significant increase to its military spending. Since then, North Korea attempted (and failed)...

The BRICS leaders have seen concretely that there is no alternative to moving from a unipolar world to a multipolar world that is based on mutual respect and an end to hierarchies. The fourth BRICS Summi...

RepE is especially pronounced and embraced by center-left regimes (CLR) resulting from popular movements which overthrew neo-liberal regimes. RepE is promoted under the banners of anti-neoliberalism and ev...

If the Koch brothers didn't exist, the left would have to invent them. They're the plutocrats from central casting – oil-and-gas billionaires ready to buy any congressman, fund any lie, fight any law, bus...

Zbigniew Brzezinski in The Grand Chessboard (1997) noted that “Cultural domination has been an underappreciated facet of American global power.” United States philanthropic foundations skillfully applied t...

I have just been reading C G Tracey’s “All for Nothing?”, itself a weeping autobiography by one of Rhodesia’s leading farmers and, especially after UDI, one of Rhodesia’s leading sanctions-busters. The bo...

With the decline of America's global preeminence, weaker countries will be more susceptible to the assertive influence of major regional powers. India and China are rising, Russia is increasingly imperia...

MUNCIE, Ind.—Johnny Whitmire shuts off his lawn mower and takes a long draw from a water bottle. He sloshes the liquid from cheek to cheek and squirts it between his work boots. He is sweating through his ...

With little public attention, dozens of universities and law-enforcement agencies have been given approval by federal aviation regulators to use unmanned aircraft known as drones, according to documents ob...

BUENOS AIRES — Last September, Argentine Judge Carlos Olivera Pastor emerged from his courthouse in the northwestern province of Jujuy to find a box next to his parked car. Numbered as if it held judicial...

People in politics talk about the right track/wrong track numbers as an indicator of public mood. This week Gallup had a poll showing only 24% of Americans feel we're on the right track as a nation. Tha...

Preparations have begun to relocate about 20,000 residents from the vicinity of China's massive Three Gorges Dam because their homes are at risk from "constant landslides," authorities in Central China's ...

Severe outbreaks of new, invasive pests triggered by rising temperatures could threaten Southeast Asia's multi-billion dollar cassava industry, as well as the livelihoods of the hundreds of thousands of s...

High oil prices are shielding Iran from the full weight of U.S. and EU economic sanctions aimed at choking Tehran's oil exports and forcing it to abandon its nuclear program. It's a Catch-22 situation. O...

A panel of experts on North Korea told US lawmakers Wednesday that Pyongyang will probably conduct a new nuclear test, and relying on China to dissuade the isolated state from doing so is unwise. "It's n...

New research at Concordia University is bringing us one step closer to clean energy. It is possible to extend the length of time a battery-like enzyme can store energy from seconds to hours, a study publis...

A tsunami saved the Greek village of Potidaea from Persian invaders in winter 479 BC, a US study said Thursday, warning that the area remains prone to earthquakes. New geological evidence suggests that t...

The landing of two Americans on the moon, in July 1969, was among the most inspiring scientific and technical achievements in human history. But today, both the political will and federal funding to susta...

A majority of China's opinion leaders and much of its public disapprove of their government's handling of ties with the United States, in a sign of increasingly open criticism, a study said Thursday. A w...

Image: Close up of a CMOS chip - a new version of the commonly used chips would allow users to capture images 'through' walls and even inside the human body. Comic-book superpowers could become reality a...

If there's one thing that unites U.S. President Barack Obama, top-ranking Saudi officials, and Americans at the gas pump, it's this: The price of oil is too damn high. What's more, given physical and mark...

It’s the rare scandal that involves murder, corruption, Harvard University and comparisons to Jacqueline Kennedy. The Bo Xilai kerfuffle now mesmerizing China offers all this and perhaps more: It could fo...

The entire US GDP is less than $15 trillion each year. The gross notional amount of derivatives issued in the USA is more than $291 trillion. Does that sound like a lot? Apologists for derivatives deale...

Chalk it up to the genuine strangeness of our second Afghan War. Americans, according to the latest polls, are turning against the conflict in ever greater numbers, yet it’s remarkable how little -- beyond...

Derivatives are the "meat and meat by-products" of the financial markets. They look, smell and taste just like regular securities, but almost no one understands why we need them in the first place. After ...

Detroit is warning drivers with outstanding parking violations to pay up now or risk not being able to renew their licenses under a new state law set to take effect next month. The law reduces the number...

Hundreds of soldiers from the Illinois National Guard will be deployed in Chicago during next month's NATO summit to help move foreign dignitaries around the center of the city, among other duties, guard ...

For a few dedicated academics, the Cold War isn’t dead. While recent archival research tends to uphold existing interpretations of the superpower confrontation, scholars have made a few exciting finds. M...

Between the ages of 18 and 22, Jodi Romine took out $74,000 in student loans to help finance her business-management degree at Kent State University in Ohio. What seemed like a good investment will delay ...

Why Fed officials' suggestions that a third round of stimulus is possible may have sent emerging market central bankers into a cold sweat. Like Pavlov's dog, which would salivate at the sound of a bell, U...

The new issue of *New York* features a "photo-illustration" of Wall Street's and the One Percent's favorite up-and-coming politician of Reaction, Paul Ryan, by Jesse Lenz... and it gets very close in styl...

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Eastern New Guinea Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 58.7 km (36.5 miles), the quake hit at 01:43:38 UTC Tuesday 1st May 2012 The epicenter was 60 km (37.2 m...

Military spending combines the two certainties in life: death and taxes. U.S. taxpayers are paying more than anyone else on Earth to support an industry devoted to death. Tuesday, Tax Day, Americans were...

A 'guinea pig’ generation of children is growing up addicted to hardcore internet pornography, MPs were warned last night. Four out of five 16-year-old boys and girls regularly access porn online while o...

(Reuters) - Dangerous currents swirl around Sotobanari island, which has not a drop of natural water, and local fishermen rarely land there. But 76-year-old Masafumi Nagasaki has made this kidney-shaped i...

(Reuters) - America's swelling ranks of fallen municipal borrowers have been blamed in the past year on 'what-were-they-thinking' causes, be it a Taj Mahal sewer system in Alabama or an overpriced trash i...

In many fields of international competition, China is less sanguine about its abilities than outsiders. Chinese leaders often remind Westerners that China is a developing country, with hundreds of milli...

More than 100 people have been killed and a similar number are missing after an overcrowded river ferry broke in two and sank in India during a severe storm, police said. About 150 others were rescued or...

A hairdresser has been stabbed to death in front of her horrified staff just after she opened up her high street salon. Natalie Esack, aged in her 30s, died from her wounds as her attacker fled past star...

Despite heavy losses in the Bab Amr district of Homs the Free Syrian Army (FSA) still controls large areas of the city. The FSA stronghold is the Khaldia district but it manages to keep the Syrian army o...

A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:40:38 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 361 km (224 miles) Sou...

Occupy posters by Eric Drooker. Life, labor, and liberty: May Day then and now By Greg Moses / The Rag Blog / May 1, 20112 Counting in reverse through the great Theses on Feuerbach, we pass by the iconic...

*A week ago, it emerged that the Australian Federal Police hold a secretly recorded conversation between two known criminals, discussing the collection of marijuana from Sydney airport on 8th October 2004...

STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! OccupyWallStreet Don't go to work or school on Tuesday! May 1st, 2012 A Day Without the 99% No Work – No School – No Housework – No Shopping Take th...

The territorial conflict in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) or the South China Sea (SCS) was exacerbated last week with the discovery of large-scale poaching of important marine resources by Chinese fishing ...

From John Kettler's blog: The ETs/EDs indicate that this could be a busy week, what with in-depth raids planned by the ETs/EDs on certain black project facilities, foreign nukes disappearing, purloi...

*"Free As A Bird"* by Chet Raymo "All afternoon I have been watching a pair of hummingbirds play about our porch. They live somewhere nearby, though I haven't found their nest. They are attracted to...

*Re-posted* on April 30, 2012 from http://kauilapele.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/benjamin-fulford-5-1-12-chaos-on-multiple-fronts-as-controlled-implosion-of-financial-cabal-continues/#more-10865 *Kauilap...

*Must see video of Fukushima spewing massive amounts of what looks to be smoke* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDxI4xG2VSg&list=UUDu1KkkwuzybKx6MXQgGHuw&index=1&feature=plcp If you have capability, please...

"Just when we think we figured things out, the universe throws us a curveball. So, we have to improvise. We find happiness in unexpected places. We find ourselves back to the things that matter the most...

23 April 2012 – Flooding hit rural areas in Colombia and Peru on Sunday, driving hundreds from their homes, flooding crops and taking at least three lives in the Boyaca province. In the Colombian town...

Yes. Your students have less observable brain activity during lecture than when they're asleep. A new paper in *IEEE Transactions in Biomedical Engineering* suggests so: Long-term assessment of EDA [*a mea...

Political cartoon by Joshua Brown / The Rag Blog / April 30, 2012.[Joshua Brown is the executive director of the Center for Media and Learning/American Social History Project, The Graduate Center, The City U...

[image: Amazon River Level in Iquitos, April 2012. www.dhn.mil.pe] The Amazon has reached record breadth, width, and height this rainy season. According to Peru’s Health Ministry, the river has grown at ...

Mother of God. This guy doesn't live all that far from my home. This is what my local "independent conservatives" consider to be civil disagreement. But, you know, it's the gay people who are the threa...

*Remains to be moved in attempt to stem rumours of murdered girl hidden in crypt* Michael Day - The Independent Milan - Monday - 30 APRIL 2012 http://goo.gl/wyWWD The Vatican is facing a deepening con...

[image: Coal power capacity additions in major regions, 2000-2010. From 2009 to 2011, demand for coal continued to shift, particularly to China and India. Since 2000, China has more than trebled its inst...

In the last week alone the only political stories that seem to have mattered involve political donations, political favours, and behind-the-scenes revelations about the way deals are done in this cosy l...

In the video below, a delusional Barack Obama implies that had Mitt Romney been President he would not be ballsy enough to invent a fictional narrative in which the President of the United States is portra...

In the last week alone the only political stories that seem to have mattered involve political donations, political favours, and behind-the-scenes revelations about the way deals are done in this cosy l...

Like I said, these live-streamed Objectivist events are coming thick and fast now. Given this is a talk examining why the free market has erroneously been blamed for the financial crisis, perhaps someon...

Livestream events hosted by Objectivists are coming thick and fast now. Here’s a provocative live-stream internet event for tomorrow, Wednesday NZ time: Morality and Religion A talk at the University ...

Goes to James Fallows, who takes on Mitt Romney's claim that "even Jimmy Carter" would have made the same call Barack Obama did with regard to the raid on bin Laden. Fallows, who worked for Carter, is nev...

*New Orleanians: If you’re not disgusted by the proposed Hospitality District, then you’re not paying attention ~Lunanola, NOLAFemmes* *The Tolls, The Ferries and the Crescent City Connection ~Alex Woodwar...

*Related*: *"Apple said Tuesday its fiscal second-quarter profit almost doubled to $11.6 billion."* "Apple slashes its tax bill with legal, cutting-edge practices" by Charles Duhigg and David Kocieniewsk...

A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked a new Texas rule that would have excluded Planned Parenthood clinics from offering women's health services for the poor in the state because the organization...

*“Humanity Will Never Have Truth Until Criminal 1% Arrested.* * Will YOU Demand It?”* by Carl Herman “The annual cost of US 1% “leadership” lies and obvious crimes is death to millions, harm to billions...

"Shale gas boom has benefits and risks; Lower energy costs welcomed, but harm to environment feared" by Erin Ailworth | Globe Staff April 29, 2012 A proposal to expand a major local pipeline could b...

Even Cactus Kate is now ready to call “time” on the hollow shell that is the current ACT Party. And with not even one person in a thousand now willing to tell pollsters they would vote for them, it’s cl...

*It starts with the bankrupting decision to commit your loved one:* "Use of antipsychotic drugs raises alarm; Federal data obtained by the Globe show many nursing homes make heavy use of antipsychotic drug...

There isn't a single Caucasian student in the class my pal Roland teaches. There wasn't one last year either. Or the year before. No wonder Republicans-- and let's face it, would anyone choose to be a Re...

*"Interesting Facts About the Student Loan Debt Bubble"* by Bill Bonner "Nothing much happened last week. Except that Ben Bernanke told investors that the fix was in…and the stock market went up. The c...

A really good article showed up in Businessweek today about ALEC At least one member of the media has finally figured out that what ALEC says – is not exactly what ALEC does. ALEC-ers are liars. The ...

Share widely. From United Opt Out: *Pearson, ALEC, and the Brave New (Corporate) World: Stand Up to Pearson Now!* Supporters of Public Education, The curtain has been pulled aside recently from the Ame...

On a notorious weblog run by his fellow crackpot, Lee Smolin got inspired by Lawrence Krauss' low-brow battle against philosophers and presented his opinions about the comparisons of science and religion o...

I am truly sickened by the lies that we have been taught about our history. I am someone who has spent years now carefully going over our fraudulent so called "recorded" history, and re-evaluating what w...

As Teen Daughter begins to spread her wings to fly away she struggles with the typical teen trap - to get a credit card, you must have credit. She complains that everyone - including her employer - has dec...

From the Pre-empting the Where Are the Feminists? Bleat File: Have you heard of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng? Probably not, unless you are a fetus fetishist or follower of China-US relations. Secr...

A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 137 km (84.9 miles), the quake hit at 19:15:36 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 37 km (22.9 miles) North of Nuku'alofa, Tonga No Tsunam...

A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia at a depth of 48 km (29.8 miles), the quake hit at 19:12:51 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 303 km (187.8 miles) North of Ter...

Propaganda accommodated to "the comprehension of the least intelligent." *an editorial by Tony Cartalucci* *May 1, 2012* - A man who has championed every war America has fought in recent history, as well a...

*Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes* By Rainer Maria Rilke Translation by Susan Ranson and Marielle Sutherland That was the unearthly mine of souls. Like silent silver-ore in heavy darkness they moved, like veins. F...

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the Banda Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 368.7 km (229.1 miles), the quake hit at 18:11:45 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 235 km (146 miles) South from Am...

Why, why, why, did the Washington Post give over space to discredited GOP hack Frank Luntz over the weekend? Luntz, as part of the Post's "five myths" feature, writes about what he calls "five myths about...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad say they are shifting tactics towards homemade bombs, hoping to even the odds between their outgunned forces and his powerful ...

April 30 - As two Chinese warships dock in Hong Kong for a short visit, the deputy chief of staff of China's South Sea Fleet says the recent U.S.-Philippine military drill did not target any particular cou...

(Reuters) - In this small Icelandic village, sailors are making double their pre-crisis pay, haddock sales to places like Boston and Brussels are booming and unemployment is almost zero - signs of this isl...

From a post entitled *BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA*. we learn: There is a belief that Obama has been subjected to CIA mind control and that these CIA mind controllers are fans of the occult. The Obama regime...

I was reading my favorite health journal, *Environmental Health Perspectives *, which is published by the National Institutes of Health, and I came across a rather strange article: "Integrated Molecular An...

Since the money doesn't go to victims and is, in any event, seldom collected this is just another press release: Justice Minister Rob Nicholson plans to change the Criminal Code in order to make victim ...

AMMAN, (SANA) – Social Nationalists in Jordan condemned the terrorist blasts which hit Syria and led to the martyrdom of many civilians and army personnel. In a statement issued Sunday, the Social Nation...

A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 30.7 km (19.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:53:15 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 124 km (77 miles) ESE f...

Surface-to-air missiles could be deployed at six sites across London to prevent any aerial terror attacks on Olympic venues during this summer's Games, the Ministry of Defence has said. Officials are con...

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 35.5 km (22.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:11:34 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 263 km (163 miles) East...

On Monday the Lebanese Army summoned several individuals for questioning over the Syria-bound ship that was allegedly carrying illegal arms. The cargo ship, LETFALLAH II, was seized by Lebanese officials ...

FUZHOU, April 30 (Xinhua) -- Six people have been confirmed dead after a landslide buried a work shed in southeast China's Fujian province last week, local authorities said Monday. The disaster occurred a...

A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck South of Java, Indonesia at a depth of 33.3 km (20.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:56:44 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 218 km (135 miles) Southwest from ...

A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Dodecanese Islands, Greece at a depth of 9 km (5.6 miles), the quake hit at 15:23:24 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) North of Irakli...

We've been told that there are hundreds of examples of the European Union projects that look comical but it's always interesting to see particular examples. On Wednesday, April 18th, the European Union ...

The other day, after reading about our Filter guitar giveaway on behalf of Ken Aden's Run 2 End Hunger II, a correspondent asked me if I have a lot of guitars and if I play them. I once had a lot of guita...

As if they weren't obvious enough for all to see already. But they're not. And our country will not recover from their plunder until they are. And speaking of plunder, how many of you agree with me about t...

(Reuters) - The U.S. economy appeared to downshift as it entered the second quarter, with consumers increasing their spending only modestly last month and a gauge of business activity in the Midwest falli...

Marine authorities in north Queensland say they are at a loss to explain why the annual northern whale migration has started a month early. Humpback whales traditionally migrate to the warmer waters of the...

Recently, my daughter was lucky enough to inherit almost a complete wardrobe from a friend that is just a little older than she is. The clothes are completely darling and my daughter fell head over heel...

** *It's not even May yet and already I'm into shorts.* *Contributor: "YYC"* Syria suicide bombers tear craters in the ground in twin blasts Yeah, suiciders do that - tear craters in the ground - NOT. Isr...

A HORRIFIC attack on a kangaroo in Bendigo at the weekend has left local residents in fear. It is believed the kangaroo was struck by a car before being placed in a trolley and pushed down a staircase abo...

Nicaraguan Experts reported Sunday more seismic activity at Masaya volcano, about 20 kilometers south of Managua, with an increase in expulsions of sulfur gases, which keeps the disaster warning system in...

A Montreal taxi driver will appear in court today in connection with a bizarre altercation that was captured on video and resulted in a 23-year-old man being run over by a cab. The incident happened at ...

New research is casting doubts on the frequency or even the possibility of a ‘super-eruption’ that could blot out the sun from the Earth with a thick veil of volcanic ash. A joint research team from Wash...

KIEV — Ukraine faced growing isolation Monday as five presidents and an EU chief voiced plans to miss a summit and the Euro 2012 football tournament over its treatment of jailed former prime minister Yuli...

The European Union has urged China to exercise "utmost restraint" in the case of escaped blind activist Chen Guangcheng. Mr Chen is holed up in the US embassy in Beijing after escaping house arrest but is...

A long, long time ago, I thought of myself as shy. But I left that behind many years ago when I took a job that required asking bold questions of strangers, and it was onward into bigger and bolder from t...

*Canada's biggest banks accepted tens of billions in government funds during the recession, according to a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. * *Canada's banking syste...

The situation with the ongoing nuclear disaster at Fukushima has not become any better than a year ago. And in fact, from what we are really seeing going on there, the situation is actually much worse! ...

I like David Icke. He may be a bit new-agey, and have theories about shape-shifting inter-dimensional reptilians, operating from inside the hollow metallic space-ship which we know as the moon (honestly,...

By Marilia Brocchetto, CNN 30 April 2012 (CNN) – Authorities in Peru are investigating the death of over 538 pelicans, along with other birds, on the northern coast of the country, the Peruvian ministr...

Wikipedia: [excerpted] "Polonium has 33 known isotopes, all of which are radioactive. They have atomic masses that range from 188 to 220 u. 210Po (half-life 138.4 days) is the most widely available. 209Po...

I refuse to feature any official reporting of the testimony from the amazing foil, counter foil, tripups, disturbed ground, office search cut short, new evidence miraculously appears, new black North Face ...

The War on Drugs is increasingly accepted as a hopeless failure. Yet even those who do get it often act like a kid standing at the end of a high diving board for the first time. They look down and free...

Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the influential preacher based in The Yemen, a man whose sermons are seen by millions of people, has once again has called upon Muslims and Arabs to rise up and destroy Israel. I...

Even though the end result was a Stephen Harper majority government, the NDP took a giant leap forward last May. In one election, the party may very well have taken the first step in killing off Canada's n...

...because if you do, you might wind up with what Chris Cillizza wrote over the weekend, in which he concludes that Mitt Romney's ceiling is basically what George W. Bush got in 2004 -- that he "he has a c...

[image: Satellite views of Dubai, 2000 and 2010. With a population of 1.2 million people, Dubai is one of the few places on Earth where urban sprawl has extended into the ocean. Construction of the Palm ...

"Revisiting South Los Angeles, 20 years after deadly race riot" by Amy Taxin and John Rogers | Associated Press, April 29, 2012 LOS ANGELES -A day that marked the beginning of one of the deadliest, most ...

Gotta love that Leo Gerard. In a posting today by him - you will find the following snips (my emphasis): Too bad, they say, for grandma, who has voted in every election for the past 65 years but doesn't h...

[image: A ferry sails by the Philadelphia waterfront. G. Widman for GPTMC] By Les Christie 25 April 2012 The U.S. has significantly reduced its air pollution, but there's still a lot of work to be done...

Battle of Britain Spitfire II MONDAY SURPRISE — 20 BRAND-NEW Spitfire XIV's! According to Victoria Ward at and Rowena Mason at The Telegraph, "Spitfires buried in Burma during war to be returned to UK". Th...

Two Polish immigrants who burgled over 100 homes and stole more than £300,000 worth of valuables have been jailed for seven years each. Krzysztof Karmaciuk, 35, and Ryszard Elert, 37, turned to a life of c...

(CNN) -- The North Africa arm of al Qaeda is offering to release a British man abducted in Mali in exchange for Britain releasing accused terror fundraiser Abu Qatada, whom authorities describe as the spi...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Spain has fallen into its second recession since 2009 as its economy shrank for the second consecutive quarter, according to a government report Monday. There are now a dozen Europ...

[image: As the United States gets more oil imported from Canada's oil sands, critics worry that the pipelines that carry it will leak. Veronique de Viguerie / Getty Images] By Steve Hargreaves 30 April ...

If you have been paying any attention to corporate media political coverage the past couple of days, you might think you were trapped in a seventh grade time warp. This is the narrative: Obama is the cool ...

In Nashville, as in many metropolitan areas, capital improvement funds are short and the need is large. Nashville Metro has identified needed school improvements that amount to $185 million. Mayor Dean h...

[image: A man holding an umbrella watches large waves on the Marina beach as a cargo ship passes after Cyclone Thane hit the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, 30 December 2011. Reuters / Babu] By Dav...

Beijing (CNN) -- A Chinese musician famous for playing a two-stringed fiddle, a 1994 Hollywood drama about two prison inmates, a United Airlines flight bound for Washington and CNN -- what do they have in...

Four Dems in Nebraska left ALEC, allegedly. Good! Not enough legislators leaving yet – but good. At least the Dems are started to get out of ALEC – why in the hell Dems chose to belong to the conservative ...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is to file a complaint against a website that claimed Libya's Col Gaddafi had offered to fund his 2007 election campaign. In six days' time, he faces Socialist Francois H...

David Cameron was today dramatically summoned to explain to MPs why he has not ordered a probe into Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt. Commons Speaker John Bercow approved an urgent question tabled by Labour ...

A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Southern Iran at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:53:02 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 41 km (25.4 miles) East of Kongan, Iran No Report...

The US state of Connecticut has abolished the death penalty! This amazing and wonderful news is brought to you by Amnesty International, the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, and lawmakers w...

You've probably heard about the pineapple. Eighth-graders in New York State recently took a standardized test (Canadian translation: students in grade eight wrote an exam) where they were asked about a tal...

There are fears of all-out war as the world's newest nation, South Sudan, prepares for action against its northern neighbour. Less than a year after getting independence from Sudan, South Sudan is now r...

The bodies of hundreds of pelicans have been found in Peru on the same beaches where almost 900 dead dolphins have washed up over the last month. The government said they will investigate the deaths of a...

Is your state GOP hiding debt? The party of fiscal responsibility has screwed up royally in the State of Minnesota and the facts that are coming out may indicate that this could be a national issue. AND t...

A 38-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman died at a hairdresser's in Kent, according to police. Police said the woman, who is believed to have been aged in her 30s, died at ...

A man has died after his car became completely submerged in floodwater as he tried to cross a ford - while large swathes of England and Wales brace for more flooding. A woman managed to escape from the ...

A brother of a friend of mine just got a new job at the Center for American Progress (CAP). He's a young attorney with a good heart so I know he'll do well. My friend at The Burned Over District has some i...

Mitt Romney and George Bush the Elder share at least one characteristic. As former governor Anne Richards used to say, each "was born with a silver foot in his mouth." Last week, Romney advised the youn...

Happy Birthday to Cloris Leachman, 86. Weird that imdb got her "known for" horribly wrong; I assume the correct answer is Mary/Young Frankenstein/Last Picture Show/her current sitcom, no? On to the good s...

A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Antofagasta, Chile at a depth of 21.6 km (13.4 miles), the quake hit at 10:23:15 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) North of Antofagasta, An...

This story on the impossibly high cost of so-called zero tolerance laws reminds me of the breed-specific legislation (anti-pitbull laws) plaguing Ontario. Reacting to media-created public hysteria, legisla...

Writing in the Boulder Daily Camera, Bob Greenlee, a local columnist, finds the idea of a levelized tuition model appealing: All state universities are proud icons representing the faith, hope, and fut...

*You like that title? I chose it with great care. For a specific reason.* *First: to grab your attention. * *Second: to make you, the reader, think about how information is presented to you.* *Sensational. ...

Two great books - both children's classics, and both simply great books for any reader - had milestone birthdays this year. *A Wrinkle In Time*, which I've blogged about before, is now 50 years old. And *C...

I have a bunch of links I want to share, and no real post for any of them. I think readers don't like linkathons, so I'm putting each link in a separate post. Coincidentally, many are from the same source,...

The breaking news that Microsoft have bought heavily into Barnes and Noble to create a new venture which encompasses their Nook, digital and college business is shall we say a surprise and a significant ...

Doctors Without Borders-Drouillard Hospital in LaPlaine This Cholera Treatment Center is located two miles north of Cite Soleil April 29, 2012 (Photo by John Carroll) Doctors Without Borders in Haiti is dire...

*MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2012* *A pundit of very few words:* Charles Blow’s role at the New York Times? It's nice work—if you can get it. The fellow composes one column per week. In Saturday’s newspaper, this ...

Now Is A Time Of Great Rejoicing *Now is a time of great rejoicing within your realm, although few will see it that way.* *A small group seeks a peaceful and equitable lives way for many within your hu...

Jiddu Krishnamurti – 11th May 1895 – 17th Feb. 1986. In to-day’s world would this be a voice crying in the wilderness? Jiddu Krishnamurti – 11th May 1895 – 17th Feb. 1986. *His Life and Work – An Ov...

DAMASCUS (AP) -- Syria's state news agency says assailants have fired rocket-propelled grenades at the Central Bank and a police patrol in the capital Damascus and detonated two bombs in the northwestern ...

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck North of Svalbard at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:25:52 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 365 km (226 miles) Northeast of Nord, Greenla...

(Reuters) - With some sporting pirate garb and black beards in light-hearted tribute to their name, Germany's internet-savvy Pirates party gathered this weekend to chart a course that may yet take them to...

(Reuters) - The United States faces a tense week in China as high-level talks on trade and global hot spots like Iran and North Korea open in the shadow of a blind Chinese activist's bold escape from hous...

Madrid (Financial Times) -- Spain's government and its banks are discussing a new scheme to segregate problematic property loans into one or more asset management companies to relieve the burden on strug...

(CNN) -- A pro-democracy activist has been ordered detained in Vietnam for at least four months, having been charged with organizing terrorist activities, state media reported. Nguyen Quoc Quan, a Califo...

(CNN) -- Washington and Beijing may be facing the most tense and delicate moment in their bilateral relationship since the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. The reported escape from house arrest of dissident lawye...

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck the North Indian Ocean at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:00:08 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 762 km (474 miles) WSW from Banda Aceh, ...

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, an affilate of the terrorist organisation, have offered to free a British-South African hostage if Abu Qatada, the radical cleric, is allowed to choose a country for his ex...

A controversial Florida pastor has staged another Koran-burning ceremony to protest about the imprisonment of a Christian clergyman in Iran. Publicity-grabbing Terry Jones, who caused international outrag...

Google's collection of sensitive and personal information from unsecured WiFi networks around the world was a deliberate and repeated choice, a new report alleges. The Federal Communications Commission h...

The BBC and their environmental allies have told us many times that the rise in CO2 levels in the seas is killing coral and that coral just will not survive in acid oceans. The trouble is that the science ...

Nearly 15,000 children - some as young as four - have been excluded in the last five years for committing sex attacks in school. Figures released today revealed more than 1,100 of those expelled or suspe...

Concern is growing for the safety of a courageous Chinese activist who was detained after helping a blind dissident escape house arrest. Human rights campaigners believe He Peirong was arrested for her i...

OBO, Central African Republic (AP) — Deep in the jungle, this small, remote Central African village is farther from the coast than any point on the continent. It's also where three international armies ha...

Most metal thieves confine themselves to drain covers and the lead from church roofs. But in the Czech Republic they think a little bigger. A gang in Slavkov dismantled an entire ten-ton bridge and 200 me...

Wind turbines could warm local climates up to ten times faster than the natural rate, a study has shown. Researchers found air temperatures around four of the world’s largest wind farms had increased by ...

One of toppled Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s top official’s has been discovered dead floating in the river Danube in Austria. Shukri Ghanem, 69, who was Libyan prime minister between 2003 and 2006, was ...

Fierce winds battered much of the country yesterday as the deluge that has followed the hosepipe ban turned into powerful storms. Hundreds of trees were uprooted by gusts of up to 70mph, blocking roads or...

The Red Army menace grows even as the government cuts the budget.... The total area in Taiwan affected by exotic red fire ants has increased by nearly 50 percent since 2003, but despite the growing infesta...

A British aid worker was found beheaded and riddled with bullets on a roadside in Pakistan yesterday because his kidnappers have not been paid the ransom they demanded. Khalil Dale, 60, was taken at gunp...

David Cameron raised the spectre of the collapse of the euro and years more economic turmoil yesterday as he confronted his deepest political crisis since entering Downing Street. The Prime Minister warn...

Soaring petrol prices and rail fares have plunged 8.2million households into ‘transport poverty’, figures reveal. This means they spend more than 10 per cent of their income on transport costs such as fu...

He has received at least £35million since joining the beleaguered Royal Bank of Scotland in 2008. But while the taxpayer-owned bank continues to record hefty losses, Stephen Hester’s personal spending on...

Two bombs have exploded in the Syrian city of Idlib as the UN continues to step up its monitoring mission across the country. State television said the blasts occurred on Monday morning in two separate a...

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 30.2 km (18.8 miles), the quake hit at 06:31:22 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 187 km (116 miles) ESE ...

French chemist Louis Pasteur (1822-95) not only developed the process named after him - pasteurization - but; made the other important contributions to public health including a vaccination to prevent ant...

A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Sumbawa Region, Indonesia at a depth of 169 km (104.7 miles), the quake hit at 04:59:09 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 72 km (44.6 miles) East of Su...

A judge's decision to uphold a subpoena for an Occupy arrestee's Twitter account raises serious privacy issues I tweet a lot. Sometimes I feel like I tweet more often than I have face-to-face conversation...

The New York Times reports on a new model of emergency care—debt collectors posing as medical staff: Hospital patients waiting in an emergency room or convalescing after surgery are being confronted by a...

The feminist riot grrrl punk band Pussy Riot, which I’ve been covering here at Death and Taxes since their anti-Putin performance inside Christ the Savior Cathedral, have had their detention extended two ...

Wellington rallies his troops during the Battle of Waterloo. “The nearest run thing you ever saw in your life.” Below: I think you’ve all seen enough photos of Alison Redford and Danielle Smith, so here a...

Interview with Evgeny Satanovsky, President of the Middle East Institute based in Moscow, Russia. The situation in Sinai is absolutely understandable after the so called Arab Spring. This is a territory w...

The armed forces have vowed to "fulfill their duty" to safeguard China's territory in the South China Sea, a Defense Ministry spokesman said on Thursday. "China's military forces will collaborate closely...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said Thursday his country is setting up a $10 billion credit line to support joint projects with Central and East European nations. Wen said that Ch...

UK's stop-start-stop recovery is weaker than after Great Depression, 70s oil shock or recessions of 80s and 90s The UK's stop-start recovery has been the weakest to follow any recession in the past 100 ye...

YUBARI, Japan — Most young people have already fled this city of empty streets and shuttered schools, whose bankrupt local government collapsed under the twin burdens of debt and demographics that are slo...

The crisis between the political blocs has reached the next level with Ankara and Tehran becoming overtly involved. The Kurds are once again at risk of being at a crossroads, where neither direction offer...

Most of us probably imagine authoritarian rule as a dramatic event – a coup d’état that ousts an elected government and replaces it with a military junta. Although world history offers several such exampl...

ATHENS - After a brief pause due to the pre-election period in Greece, representatives of the troika (the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the European Central Bank) will once again be ...

ATHENS - Despite the severe austerity measures imposed by the government in Athens, in line with international creditors, in a bid to restore to health the country's disastrous national accounts, the rece...

ANKARA - The Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has fired a new warning shot to the Damascus authorities today, saying that Ankara "will take the appropriate measures, as a NATO country" if the...

An underwater earthquake has occurred in Spain and is quite possibly occurring now in Italy. Killer waves are now headed directly at the central banks and financial systems throughout the developed world ...

Several of my savviest readers wrote expressing disappointment and consternation with the Frontline series on the crisis, “Money, Power, and Wall Street.” The first two parts of the four part series have b...

Iran has offered $500 million to Pakistan to build the latter's part of a planned cross-country gas pipeline, doubling its earlier offer of $250 million, an official at the Ministry of Petroleum and Natura...

*Was Breitbart’s Coroner Poisoned to Death?* that's the title of the latest rant by rantmeister Alex Jones. Here's Alex explaining why he thinks a 'fatal accident' of one of the L.A. Coroner's staff relat...

Fearing a frenzy, an outreach campaign off the hopeful shores of Nome begins in five weeks, when the US Coast Guard, Alaska State Troopers and other agencies hold a series of meetings designed to offer sa...

(China Military News cited from ruvr.ru and by Alexey Pilko) -- Apparently, with the Cold War over, a new global confrontation between the United States and China could begin. One might get this impression...

[image: April2012_X4] *A juvenile Malaysian night heron, a common sight around Taiwan.* A friend sent this from the China Times around: "A ship carrying pesticides and herbicides manufactured in Africa and...

The next time you fill up your car, watching the tank fill and your wallet empty, you may want to think about the kids in Mr. Reynolds’ after-school group at Aurora Jr. High School in Missouri. They buil...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A veteran Republican lawmaker says it's time for an inspector general's investigation to find how widespread the problems at the Secret Service are. Sen. Chuck Grassley, the top Republic...

U.S. economic growth cooled in the first quarter as businesses cut back on investment and restocked shelves at a moderate pace, but stronger demand for automobiles softened the blow. Gross domestic prod...

A big increase in reports of Asian tiger shrimp along the U.S. Southeast coast and in the Gulf of Mexico has federal biologists worried the species is encroaching on native species' territory. The shrimp...

SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - A purported practical joke on a colleague that threatened a plane hijacking and the assassination of President Barack Obama has landed a Utah man in trouble with federal authorit...

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